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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes ... - Page 295
by John Milton - 1903
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First Steps to Botany [...]

James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...went Into the thickest wood; there soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renown'd, . groul The bended twigs take root, and daughters gro About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd,...
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Oriental Herald and Colonial Review, Volume 9

James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1826 - 652 pages
...more favoured days, aiid thence describe the tree " to Indians known," which — In Malabar, or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree. I have now brought together two names which hold no inconsiderable station among The genuine kings...
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The Oriental Herald, Volume 9

Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...more favoured days, and thence describe the tree " to Indians known," which — In Malabar, or Deccan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that...take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree. I have now brought together two names which hold no inconsiderable station among The genuine kings...
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A Visit to Colombia: In the Years 1822 & 1823, by Laguayra and Caracas, Over ...

William Duane - Caracas (Venezuela) - 1826 - 652 pages
...has given it the beautiful leaves of the banana : the passage is as follows : There soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But...to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan, spreads her arras, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow...
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The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 2

Bible - 1827 - 264 pages
...unclean. So counselled he, and both together went Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose 1 100 The fig-tree ; not that kind for fruit renowned, But...between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, 1108 Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds 1109 At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
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The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King ..., Volume 4

John Nichols - England - 1828 - 702 pages
...BOY. Here, father. 1 Milton treads rather closely upon the heels of Jonson here : " The fig tree that In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms Branching so...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade High over-arch'd, and echoing walks between." Paradise Lost, ix, 1100. COOK. Bring forth...
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Nature Reviewed: Or, a History of the Principal Domestic Productions of the ...

Nature - Home economics - 1829 - 178 pages
...Paradise Lost, Book 9 :— "There soon they chose The fig tree ; not that tree for fruit reuown'd, But such as, at this day (to Indians known In Malabar...root, and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a pillar'd shade High over-arched, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman shunning...
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Sylva Britannica: Or, Portraits of Forest Trees, Distinguished for Their ...

Forests in art - 1830 - 272 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 328 pages
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